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This show sucks!
How about some putting things on top of other things?
I had been doing that, although yesterday I discovered a stack of books, cds, dvds, and video games on top of the tv the hard way ... as they fell on my head.
Amateur!
When it gets really boring at work, I try to build a D&D character database in Microsoft Access. It's hard.
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When it gets really boring at work, I try to build a D&D character database in Microsoft Access. It's hard.
I was working on a spell book website that I was hoping to turn into an iPhone/iPod Touch app. It got scrapped because I was lazy.
Now good idea: ice cubes shaped to fit plastic bottle
Bad Idea: putting said ice cube into brand new plastic 2 liter of warm Diet Coke.
I'm glad there is no sugar in there or my hands would be freakishly sticky.
...or my hands would be freakishly sticky.
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Ah, the reactions I try to get. That made my day. Although I am suddenly considering Poodle-sicles.yes but you have to be able to keep it down. ANd you knwo what they say about putting a poodle down.
Hmm, a skewer run from head to tail and then attached to the inside of a 55 gallon drum from side to side ...
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If you'd all come to PAIZOCON you wouldn't be bored...
I'm just sayin'.
Well when I can my handy dandy TARDIS and the extra funds I'll go back and take a visit. Now granted if I had the TARDIS I could use my sonic screwdriver and just crank up a pre-paid credit card and ... well ...
Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey ... Stuff (and celery)
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If you'd all come to PAIZOCON you wouldn't be bored...
I'm just sayin'.
Well when I can my handy dandy TARDIS and the extra funds I'll go back and take a visit. Now granted if I had the TARDIS I could use my sonic screwdriver and just crank up a pre-paid credit card and ... well ...
Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey ... Stuff (and celery)
Don't forget your jellybabies!
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Don't forget your jellybabies!If you'd all come to PAIZOCON you wouldn't be bored...
I'm just sayin'.
Well when I can my handy dandy TARDIS and the extra funds I'll go back and take a visit. Now granted if I had the TARDIS I could use my sonic screwdriver and just crank up a pre-paid credit card and ... well ...
Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey ... Stuff (and celery)
Jelly Babies are great, although Jelly Bears are good too (although centipedes are my fav)
If you'd all come to PAIZOCON you wouldn't be bored...
I'm just sayin'.
Vic looks like such a friendly, civilized god. But don't be fooled: he has a viciously cruel side.
Chief Technical Officer
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Vic looks like such a friendly, civilized god. But don't be fooled: he has a viciously cruel side.If you'd all come to PAIZOCON you wouldn't be bored...
I'm just sayin'.
But I added "I'm just sayin'," which society has agreed automatically absolves me of any possible charges of cruelty.
Lies all lies
Lies all lies
How can you be bored? There are wars going on, economies in shambles, games to play..
1. If you could be any animal which animal would you be and why?
2. What is your favorite color? Describe it in 2 or 3 sentences.
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Lies all liesHow can you be bored? There are wars going on, economies in shambles, games to play..
1. If you could be any animal which animal would you be and why?
2. What is your favorite color? Describe it in 2 or 3 sentences.
1) I would be a cat. All i want to do all day is sleep around the house, eat and poop when I want to.
2) My favorite color is green. it is the color of my favorite superhero (The Green Lantern) and my wife looks HOT in green.
But I added "I'm just sayin'," which society has agreed automatically absolves me of any possible charges of cruelty.
Society failed to contact me on this one, so I never gave my consent and therefore the agreement is null and void.
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Chief Technical Officer
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Society failed to contact me on this one, so I never gave my consent and therefore the agreement is null and void.
But I added "I'm just sayin'," which society has agreed automatically absolves me of any possible charges of cruelty.
[GEORGE COSTANZA] WE HAD A DEAL! WE... HAD... A... DEAL![/GEORGE COSTANZA]
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Lies all liesHow can you be bored? There are wars going on, economies in shambles, games to play..
1. If you could be any animal which animal would you be and why?
2. What is your favorite color? Describe it in 2 or 3 sentences.
1) I would be a cat. All i want to do all day is sleep around the house, eat and poop when I want to.
2) My favorite color is green. it is the color of my favorite superhero (The Green Lantern) and my wife looks HOT in green.
GL is great, I've recently started myself on a quest to read all of V2 and V3. I'm currently caught up with V4.
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GL is great, I've recently started myself on a quest to read all of V2 and V3. I'm currently caught up with V4.Lies all liesHow can you be bored? There are wars going on, economies in shambles, games to play..
1. If you could be any animal which animal would you be and why?
2. What is your favorite color? Describe it in 2 or 3 sentences.
1) I would be a cat. All i want to do all day is sleep around the house, eat and poop when I want to.
2) My favorite color is green. it is the color of my favorite superhero (The Green Lantern) and my wife looks HOT in green.
I have almost all the GL comics. I'm missing the golden age's first app (I don't have ten grand to spend!) and some of the golden age run. I also dont have Hal's fist app. (again $$$ issues) but I got most of the silver age run. He was my favorite ever since I saw him on Superfriends. What do you think about the new stuff?
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I'm enjoying it. Overall. I was surprised to see that Gardner is actually becoming a decent character.I'm really curious to see what "The Blackest Night" is going to hold for my hero, plus I want to see who they resurrect.
I was surprised he already got rid of the blue ring. I honestly expected there to be a point where he wore all 8 (and that can still happen).
The only resurrected ones I know of for sure are the 4 they've revealed.
Martian Manhunter, Arthur Curry Aquaman, Ronnie Raymond Firestorm and Kal-L Earth 2 Superman
I'm sure there will be more.
edited for typo ...
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I'm enjoying it. Overall. I was surprised to see that Gardner is actually becoming a decent character.I'm really curious to see what "The Blackest Night" is going to hold for my hero, plus I want to see who they resurrect.I was surprised he already got rid of the blue ring. I honestly expected there to be a point where he wore all 8 (and that can still happen).
The only resurrected ones I know of for sure are the 4 they've revealed.
** spoiler omitted **
I'm sure there will be more.
I didn't know about the 3rd one on your list of resurrections!!! Sweet Christmas...Geoff Johns is AWESOME!!!!!!
If you'd all come to PAIZOCON you wouldn't be bored...
I'm just sayin'.
That hurts!
If you'd all come to PAIZOCON you wouldn't be bored...
I'm just sayin'.
The hotel does not allow dogs. Coincidence? I think not!
How about some putting things on top of other things?
No, I'm tired of that. And yesterday was silly walking. Howabout confuse-a-cat?
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How about some putting things on top of other things?No, I'm tired of that. And yesterday was silly walking. Howabout confuse-a-cat?
Now that would be good, my cat loved a good laser pointer, but when I changed the batteries the new ones didn't work (although I could put the old ones back in and get a little use).
But I added "I'm just sayin'," which society has agreed automatically absolves me of any possible charges of cruelty.
That's like insulting someone and then tacking on "..., but I don't mean that in a bad way."
We've got plenty of game designers here. Let's create our own Bored-Game.
We've got plenty of game designers here. Let's create our own Bored-Game.
The board is circular, with a track of spaces around the outside. Pieces move around this outside track of spaces by rolling 2d4. There are 100 spaces.
The middle of the board is split into 4 area, like cutting a pie in fourths. When landing on certain spaces, activities in one of these 4 quadrants is activated. The activities gain the players points, that can be spent to assist in moving and playing in other activities. But, a balance must be kept, because ultimately the player with the most points wins.
2-6 players start on the same square, play ends when one player makes it all the way around the board. Then, the player with the highest points wins.
what is written/marked on each space around the outside?
what are the 4 activities (sub-games) in the inner slices?
What about a 'night in a ghoul haunted graveyard' b-movie type premise?
Last one to survive the game... survives. Lots of bluis greys on the board or a nice nocturnal cemetery feel.
EDIT: I erased my previous post.
I said...
Nice! The game's board looks a little like the Trivial Pursuit board, but our game's pie sections will matter to gameplay and pieces will not necessarily be collected. Do you envision the pie slices being wide open areas that convey powers to specific, perhaps adjoining spaces on that outside ring? Or might they be mini boards unto themselves... you land on a certain space and you get sucked down into them and have to follow through a little maze of extra steps, along the way picking up ways to reward your character, or hand reward to other players, and also come to a peril, or hand a peril to a fellow character of your choosing (Yay! Strategery!)
A variation on the making it around the board wins rule set:
So if there was say, a cemetery premise (just to get the ball rolling on visualizing game action), perhaps the game starts with the reading aloud of the crap hitting the spinny cooly thing, and the game progresses from there... one of the four inner wedge areas is a mausoleum. One is an old family's sprawling crypt from 100 years ago. A tunnel that connects many graves, swarming with ghouls. On more location. So while running along the outside ring (outside in the grassy cemetery) you're hoping to stay alive by picking up clues (in each game, perhaps each of the four wedges might be the place the player needs to figure out to be and do an action to win the game afer gaining enough talents (and propely throwing all of their friends into harm's many tooth'ed way).
Nice! The game's board looks a little like the Trivial Pursuit board, but our game's pie sections will matter to gameplay and pieces will not necessarily be collected. Do you envision the pie slices being wide open areas that convey powers to specific, perhaps adjoining spaces on that outside ring? Or might they be mini boards unto themselves... you land on a certain space and you get sucked down into them and have to follow through a little maze of extra steps, along the way picking up ways to reward your character, or hand reward to other players, and also come to a peril, or hand a peril to a fellow character of your choosing (Yay! Strategery!)
Yes, it does look a little TP-ish, but the track is only around the outside, and is meant to be a launch point into the four section. Each section will be a mini board (even game) unto itself, yes. But, remember it is possible you may repeat one of these games over and over, so it has to be very open. If you gain points, you can use it to be more powerful the next time you enter a section. And, opponents must have 'f&!@ over' ability.
I love the idea that one section is a grave yard. Let me chew on this... perhaps you have to move around and over graves and tombstones (frogger style???). When you enter the grave yard one side, you first draw 2(??) Action Cards. Then, roll a d6 and begin moving. Keep rolling a d6 until you cross, and get out. Along the way you land on graves. Graves can be cards, and when you land on a grave you flip over the card, and do what it says. You can use your power cards as modifiers(???). Other players can spend their points to make your journey harder. You win points along the way....
I'm just saying.
I love the idea that one section is a grave yard. Let me chew on this... perhaps you have to move around and over graves and tombstones (frogger style???). When you enter the grave yard one side, you first draw to Action Cards. Then, roll a d6 and begin moving. Keep rolling a d6 until you cross, and get out. Along the way you land on graves. Graves can be cards, and when you land on a grave you flip over the card, and do what it says. You can use your power cards as modifiers(???). Other players can spend their points to make your journey harder. You win points along the way....I'm just saying.
Suh-weet!
Edit: I added more to my previous post before seeng your reply. I was just going for a little fun camp in that example.
Or it could even be all B-movies. One wedge area for each type. The cemetery for a night film meets the aliens are here to steal my donuts film meets two other genres. Fusion of different elements, like keeping a cemetery power card that's say, "Ghost Possession (+8 attack)" which you an then use to hamper a fellow player OR defend from an assault by any other wedge's baddies (ie. a ghost card won't work on ghouls from the cemetery wedge), like an Alien Scout(+6 Attack). Imagine the Venusian's surprise when you spectre-barf and kill him. :)
This game could be a little like Risk in the sese that if you draw a power card that doesn't force you to attack one of the other players, and you then at any point use it, creating the first voluntary player on player attack, you may draw collective fire from everyone else. That creates an interesting 'niceness while it lasts' dynamic. If there's a natural gravity to the game with regards to combining efforts to survive versus sacrificing friends, it's going to stir a little anger, and that will draw people back to the game for revenge play.
Or it could even be all B-movies. One wedge area for each type. The cemetery for a night film meets the aliens are here to steal my donuts film meets two other genres. Fusion of different elements, like keeping a cemetery power card that's say, "Ghost Possession (+8 attack)" which you an then use to hamper a fellow player OR defend from an assault by any other wedge's baddies (ie. a ghost card won't work on ghouls from the cemetery wedge), like an Alien Scout(+6 Attack). Imagine the Venusian's surprise when you spectre-barf and kill him. :)
This game could be a little like Risk in the sese that if you draw a power card that doesn't force you to attack one of the other players, and you then at any point use it, creating the first voluntary player on player attack, you may draw collective fire from everyone else. That creates an interesting 'niceness while it lasts' dynamic. If there's a natural gravity to the game with regards to combining efforts to survive versus sacrificing friends, it's going to stir a little anger, and that will draw people back to the game for revenge play.
B-movie genres is a good idea. For game purposes, one *must* be a maze, as you mentioned before. Maybe a bar (bar fights) for another one. Another planet is a good one too; perhaps a mars/venus combo..
B-movie genres is a good idea. For game purposes, one *must* be a maze, as you mentioned before. Maybe a bar (bar fights) for another one. Another planet is a good one too; perhaps a mars/venus combo..
Time to list B-movie traditions:
Aliens attack our rural areas...
Horny drunken kids invade a cemetery for a night...
1. Aliens attack rural areas
2. party in a grave yard
3. Maze-like hell dimension
4. robot slaves of man-with-brain-in-jar want your body parts
What was that movie where a bunch of guys were riding in a train, and when telling stories a whole little story was shown? It was the pre-cursor to creep show. I think it was from the 70's.